Who else would like politics to be humdrum?

[JasonBlack]

(02-11-2022, 08:59 AM)David Horn Wrote: As bad, if not worse, is the exact opposite: no one can change anything ever.  Eventually, stasis becomes rot and whatever sense of community and polity that may have existed simply disappears.  Of the two, my disaster scenario is a lot closer to reality today.
Be careful what you wish for.

I hope we're in agreement that we don't want either of these, but frankly, I'll take "rotten stasis and anarchy" over "top-down continual surveillance and micro-management" without a second thought. For example, I'd take the life of a violent Somali pirate over pretty much any citizen of North Korea any day of the week. In either event, morality tends to break down at either the extreme of order or the extreme of chaos.